Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-13
LORD IDDESLEIGH.
He Is Suddenly Stricken with Death
While Visiting Lord Salisbury.


While Visiting Lord Salisbury.
by telegraph to the RECORD UNION
LONDON, January 12th.-Lord Iddesleigh
is dead Thus far but meager particulars
are known regarding his death. 1t has
been ascertainei, however, that he was
taken suddenly i'll this afternoon while as
cending the stairs of Salisbury's residence
in Downing street. He was taken into the
Prime Minister sroom and almost instantly
expired.
Dr. Mortimer Granville, Lord Iddesleigh's
physician, has issued a bulletin in relation
to his Lordships death. In it he says Lord
IddeSleigh for many years past has suffered
with cardiac affections. which, while not
placing his life in immediate peril, rem
dered the prospect of its sudden termina-
ton only too possible. He died of syncope
The melancholy event, although startling
to those around him, has not been unfore-
seen by bis immediate friends, and has
been anticipated by his medical attendants
Sir James Ferguson, Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, in an interview, said
Lord Iddesleigh, a moment before leaving
the Foreign Office, spoke to ME very calmly
about the office He expressed the hope
that our separation would not be perma-
| nent. Henry NJ Stanley. the explorer, was
waiting to see him about the Emin Bey ex-
petition, and IddesIeigh asked me to see
Stanley and make another appointment for
later in the evening. Lord Iddesleigh was
looking well. in fact better than usual. He
conversed with me pleasantly, and when
we parted he was in good spirits"
The body of Lord Iddesleigh lies in Sails
bury's room. The Prime Minister arrived
shortly after 1ddesleigh was taken i'll and
while the doctors were trying to rally him,
He is greatly affected by the death of his
former Minister.
Manlers, Salisbury's Private Secretary
says: 1.-THE moment Lord Iddesleigh came
inside the ante-room be sank down upon a
chair. / was in the next room. Hearing
groans. went into the ante-room and
lifted him to a sofa. The doctors were in
immediate attendance and remedies were
applied, but Lord Iddesleigh never spoke
He died twenty minutes after he was taken
ill. His son, Henry Stafford Northcote,
was sent for, but did not reach his father
until ten minutes after all was over. He
left later for Prizes in Exeter, the family
seat, to tell his mother of her husbands
death"
A SKETCH OF HIS PUEBLO CAREER
The Right Honorable Sir Stafford North
cote, Bart. G.C.B., MP. FRS, was born
in London, October q, 1918. He was edu-
Gated at Balhol College, Oxford, and was
Private Secretary to Mr. Gladstone when
the latter was President of Board of Trade
in 1S43 and 1915, and became Legal Secre-
tary of the Board in 1S47. He succeeded
to the family estate in 1851. He held many
places of great importance and response
bility from 1851 up to the present. When
Lord Salisbury assumed the Premiership
the first time. Sir Stafford was elevated TO
the peerage under the title of Earl Iddes-
leigh of Iddesleigb, with place in the
Cabinet. In the present Salisbury Cabinet
he held the position of Foreign Secretary
up to the very recent reconstruction of it
through the resignation of Lord Randolph
Churchill when he was forced to retire,
Lord Salisbury himself taking the Foreign
Secretary portfolio. He rejected the Privy
Seal offered to him when the Tory Premier
considered that the exigencfes of the case
required his resignation from the Cabinet.
From the time of Disraelis elevation to the
House of Lords up to tho time OF his own
promotion to seat among the British
Peers, Sir Stafford NorsAcote was tine Con-
servstive leader of the House of Commons,
being succeeded by Sir Michael Hicks
Beach and later by Lord Randolph Church
ill., In the House of Commons he was
never greet power, nor has he made
much of figure in the House OF Peers.